The Map of My Life

• Main Author: Shimura, Goro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Algebraic geometry.; History.; Number theory.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Number Theory.; Algebraic Geometry.

In this book, the author writes freely and often humorously about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood days. He describes his survival of American bombing raids when he was a teenager in Japan, his emergence as a researcher in a post-war university system that was seriously deficient, and...

Table of Contents:

• Childhood
• As a Student
• As a Mathematician
• A Long Epilogue.